15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 51
 

51

Bridges, Charles Poems in Five Phases, Simpkin, Marshall, 1914 and Verse Voluntaries, Simpkin,...

Bridges, Charles
Poems in Five Phases, Simpkin, Marshall, 1914 and Verse Voluntaries, Simpkin, Marshall, 1912
with Stuart, Muriel

Christ at Carnival, Herbert Jenkins, 1916 and Poems, William Heinemann, 1922. Poems is inscribed 'Leo - June 1912 - June 1922' and has a loosely inserted letter (also signed 'B') with a pained tone, upset that the recipient has retreated into the shadows and concerned it is their fault. Carnival has tipped-in fragment from a letter thanking a Leo for his help in completing the book (marked as 'Concerning Cockpit of Idols', another of Stuart's books. Leo may well be Leonard Chope, who is thanked in the dedication of Bridges' Five Phases.
with A Bookworm's Birthday Book, 1896 with bookplate and owner's inscription of Charles Bridges 1903, this was a common-place book, listing authors' birthdates with a blank following page for your own thoughts or quotations from their works. Many of the pages have been filled with attractive Art Nouveau designs, some in pencil, others coloured in ink, with occasional MSS notes.
Bridges was a poet of the Edwardian period to whom Stuart composed a paen "To a Poet, Charles Bridges", contained in Christ at Carnival. Stuart was frequently concerned with sexual politics, though first she wrote on WWI. It seems likely that the 'B' of the letter and inscription is Bridges, with the letter plausibly to either Leo or Stuart, but it is impossible to be sure. Evidently the letter writer had taken a line from the recipient's work as the dedication in a work Heinemann was publishing. Stuart's Poems were of course published by Heinemann, but it is unclear why she would sign herself 'B'.

Sold for £70
Estimated at £80 - £100


 

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